Kenney and CPC doubling down on a bad hand

The normally pink Jason Kenney was somewhat more red faced Tuesday in the wake of Sun Media retracting its story that an Alberta Liberal candidate had been caught in a beer-and-popcorn moment. It turns out, it wasn’t the candidate at all and the Tories’ efforts at ‘gotcha’ politics backfired badly. But rather than admitting they got it wrong, the Conservatives tried to keep the story alive. “The person who recorded the conversation maintains the comments in question are from the Liberal candidate,” said spokesman Cory Hann. Too bad no one else does.